Teachers strike cloud over semester exams

With the teachers strike still on,senior colleges authorities are wondering if and when they can hold their first-semester examinations.

With the teachers strike still on,senior colleges authorities are wondering if and when they can hold their first-semester examinations. Classes have not yet started owing to the indefinite strike. Talks with Chief Minister Ashok Chavan are on but the strike entered its 36th day on Tuesday.

While schools and junior colleges have been instructed by the state education department to cancel their unit tests due to a week long break declared till August 19 in the wake of swine flu outbreak,senior colleges are awaiting a directive from the state government on the first semester examination.

In order to compensate the academic days that colleges have lost due to the strike,a few principals have suggested not to give the Diwali vacation. Principal of Goregaon-based Patkar College,Uday Mashelkar said his college was planning to conduct the exam in the beginning of the second term. We have missed several academic days and will try to compensate them during the Diwali and Christmas vacations.

Ramnarain Ruia College principal Suhas Pednekar said,It is difficult to say when we should conduct first semester exams. We can take the decision only after the strike is called off. Then we will come to know how many working days we have lost.

Students,who have been sitting at home for the last one month,dont seem to be keen on attending lectures during the Diwali vacation. Bhavin Mahru,a TYBCOM student at SIES College,said,We already have some plans for Diwali. I hope the exams will be postponed so that we will have enough time to study. Deepa Nair,a TYBA student,said,We are worried as we have not been told anything about exams. We have a lot to catch up. I dont know how we are going to cope with.

A delegation of Maharashtra Federation of University and College Teachers Organisation (MFUCTO) met Chavan on Sunday and discussed the implementation of the composite University Grants Commission (UGC) scheme on VI Pay Commission and implementation of NET/SET for teachers appointed prior to December 1999. Another meeting is scheduled to be held this week.

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Teachers strike cloud over semester exams

With the teachers strike still on,senior colleges authorities are wondering if and when they can hold their first-semester examinations.

Teachers strike cloud over semester exams

With the teachers strike still on,senior colleges authorities are wondering if and when they can hold their first-semester examinations.